UT also admitted that assistant coach Jason Shay approved lodging expenses for the families of three recruits who were coming to town for official visits and that all three recruits visited Knoxville for longer than the NCAA's allotted 48 hours.

Players on UT's current roster involved in the matters had their names redacted from the documents, but players who signed elsewhere were mentioned. Those names included Elliot Williams, who signed with Duke, transferred to Memphis and now plays in the NBA; Kansas' Josh Selby; Florida State's Chris Singleton; Ohio State's Aaron Craft; Xavier's Justin Martin and Griffin McKenzie; and Rico Pickett, who signed with Alabama, transferred to Miami Dade College and then Manhattan and now plays professionally overseas.

UT wrote a memo to SEC commissioner Mike Slive citing "poor record keeping," "miscommunication" or "carelessness" for the infractions.

According to documents dating from April to July, UT's self-imposed penalties included reducing the staff's recruiting calendar from 130 to 104 days, reducing its number of official visits from 12 to eight and banning Jones (three months) and head coach Bruce Pearl (nine days) from making recruiting calls.

UT later punished itself much more severely, when Pearl admitted he gave "incorrect and misleading information" to the NCAA when asked about a picture taken of himself and Craft in Pearl's living room when the recruit was a high school junior. Prospects aren't allowed to engage coaches off campus as juniors.

Men's athletic director Mike Hamilton and chancellor Jimmy Cheek approved a 25 percent salary reduction for Pearl and his assistants and bans on off-campus recruiting for the coaches ranging from one year to three months.

UT has received an official letter of inquiry from the NCAA about an investigation into the entire athletic department. The department ultimately will receive an official notice detailing alleged infractions from the football and men's basketball programs and possibly the baseball program. UT will respond to that notice before meeting with the infractions committee and receiving a ruling.

Multiple UT officials have said no athletic department employees will speak to the media about specific allegations until the school receives an official notice from the NCAA.

In an interview with SI.com's Luke Winn on Sunday at the Best of the Best Coaching Clinic at Long Island (N.Y.) Lutheran High School, Pearl said he hoped to keep his job.

"We did what we felt like we needed to do, to take steps proactively to penalize ourselves," Pearl told Winn. "I think the penalties were unprecedented in some scope. But we made mistakes. We provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

"I should be made an example of, and I am - I'm embarrassed. But I hope that the things we did don't rise to the level of termination, because we run a clean program. We got investigated in a lot of areas."

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